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Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance

Briefings

The regulatory landscape of Brexit for CLOs: where to from here?

22 August 2016

The UK's vote to leave the EU has raised questions across the financial markets and answers are only beginning to trickle through. For CLO market participants – and UK-based collateral managers in particular – the biggest legal concerns are regulatory, mainly around MiFID authorisation and risk retention. In this briefing we review the issues facing the CLO market as a result of the Brexit vote and discuss why, for the moment, the best bet is probably to wait and see.

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